Dasht-e-Kavir

or Dasht-i-Ka·vir

[ dahsht-ee-kah-veer; English dahsht-ee-kuh-veer ]

noun

1. a salt desert in N central Iran. About 77,220 sq. mi. (200,000 sq. km).

Example Sentences

On the powdery sands of Dasht-e-Kavir, Iran's Great Salt Desert, lay the burned-out hulk of a lumbering U.S.

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On the powdery sands of Dasht-e-Kavir, Iran's Great Salt Desert, lay the burned-out hulk of a lumbering U.S.

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The political fallout from Dasht-e-Kavir "The worse I do, the more popular I get," mused President John F. Kennedy, baffled by his spurt in the polls after the Bay of Pigs fiasco.

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On the powdery sands of Dasht-e-Kavir, Iran's Great Salt Desert, lay the burned-out hulk of a lumbering U.S.

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In fact, the sands had barely settled in Iran's Dasht-e-Kavir desert before Carter took to the road.

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